{"id":61703,"date":"2025-05-30T04:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T04:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61703"},"modified":"2025-05-30T04:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T04:04:22","slug":"california-dad-dyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61703","title":{"rendered":"California dad dyes\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-833.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-833.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-833-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A father is dead after a single-vehicle crash on Coast Highway in Laguna Beach on Memorial Day.<br>An investigation revealed the passenger \u2013 James Politoski \u2013 was teaching his daughter to drive when the collision occurred.<br>The cause of the crash is currently under investigation by the Laguna Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fatal crash happened on Monday, May 26, around 4:15 p.m. on Coast Highway between Wesley and Montage Resort drives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A preliminary investigation revealed the car, driven by a 15-year-old girl with a driver\u2019s permit, crashed through a fence in the upper parking lot of the now-shuttered Gelson\u2019s Market at 24 Monarch Bay Plaza, according police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vehicle then broke through a fence barrier, and rolled 40 feet down an embankment before flipping upside down onto the highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girl sustained significant injuries and was taken to the hospital. She is expected to survive, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her father, James Politoski, 64, of Laguna Beach, was identified as the only passenger in the vehicle. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we don\u2019t know:<br>The cause of the collision remains under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s next:<br>The Laguna Beach Police Department is continuing its investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61665\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A father is dead after a single-vehicle crash on Coast Highway in Laguna Beach on Memorial Day.An investigation revealed the passenger \u2013 James Politoski \u2013 was teaching&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61705,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61703\/revisions\/61705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}